Gloria Tavera

President of the board, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines

Gloria Tavera

President of the board, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines

If universities use federal funds to help invent new medicines, shouldn't they also push to make sure people who need those medicines get them? That's the idea behind Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. Tavera, now an M.D./Ph.D. student at Case Western Reserve University, is a founding member and the current president of the organization, which has 100 chapters at universities in 18 different countries.